Shattered Windows

Shattered Windows What would you do If you had a choice to be the killer or be the killed? "….I remember vividly, the day my mom grabbed my hair and whispered "it's better to be the killer than to be killed". I looked at her in fright as I heard the word killer slither out of her mouth. I started to kick and scream for her to let me go so I could run away and avoid the kind of future she's planned ahead for me…." Excerpt from chapter 1 of this riveting novella from a teenage author Nevaeh and her mother never had a normal relationship. They never expressed how it is to love someone. Well what would you do if you had a choice to kill your mother or die. In this novel Nevaeh experience things that no child should go through. She's been brought into a life that is no longer her own. What would you do? If you had a choice to be the killer or to be killed? Find out in this thought provoking Novella from 13-Year old Harmony Banwo

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Shattered Windows What would you do If you had a choice to be killer or be killed? "....I remember vividly, the day my mom grabbed my hair and whispered, "it's better to be the killer than to be killed". I looked at her in fright as I heard the word killer slither out of her mouth. I started to kick and scream for her to let me go so I could run away and avoid the kind of future she's planned ahead for me...." Excerpt from chapter 1 of this riveting novella from a teenage author Nevaeh and her mother never had a normal relationship. They never expressed how it is to love someone. Well, what would you do if you had a choice to kill your mother or die? In this novel, Nevaeh experiences things that no child should go through. She's been brought into a life that is no longer her own. What would you do? If you had a choice to be the killer or to be killed? Find out in this thought-provoking tale from Harmony Banwo

A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence Arthur Boers’s earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well. In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing but ultimately unable to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed father to son. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father. Intertwined with this narrative is his emerging vocation to ministry, more mystical and expressive than the Reformed tradition in which he was raised. Forthright and authentic, Boers extends a hand in solidarity to readers who have been wounded by those who were meant to protect them the most. With Shattered, he charts a path toward healing through faith.

A continuation of the story begun in 'Deep Winter', finding the Drummond family and their friends adapting to the radically altered world they now find themselves in.

Now revised and updated, this "inspired, impactful, and important" book shows how to achieve the ultimate success by rectifying the small problems that can sink a business (Stephen R, Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People). Once every few years a book comes along with an insight so penetrating, so powerful—and so simply, demonstrably true—that it instantly changes the way we think and do business. Such a book is Broken Windows, Broken Business, a breakthrough in management theory that can alter the destiny of countless companies striving to stay ahead of their competition. In this vital work, author Michael Levine offers compelling evidence that problems in business, large and small, typically stem from inattention to tiny details. Social psychologists and criminologists agree that if a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, soon thereafter the rest of the windows will be broken—and the perception will build that crime in that neighborhood is out of control. The same principle applies to business. Drawing on real-world corporate examples, from JetBlue's decision to give fliers what they really want—leather seats, personal televisions, online ticketing - to Google's customer-based strategy for breaking out of the pack of Internet search engines, to business-to-business firms' successes and failures, Levine proves again and again how constant vigilance and an obsession with detail can make or break a business or a brand. With tips and advice on changing any business to one that dots its i's, crosses its t's, and attracts more clients, Broken Windows, Broken Business goes straight to the heart of what makes all enterprises successful—the little things that mean a lot.